linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] irqchip: Add driver for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs

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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:33:33 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 2/2] irqchip: Add driver for Cirrus Logic Madera
 codecs

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On 30/08/18 11:31, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
> > > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > > +/*
> > > > + * Interrupt support for Cirrus Logic Madera codecs
> > > > + *
> > > > + * Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Cirrus Logic
> > > > + *
> > > > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > > > the
> > > > + * Free Software Foundation; version 2.
> > > 
> > > You have the SPDX identifier above, which makes this boilerplate
> > > superfluous.
> > > 
> > 
> > Our legal people want it left here.
> > They are ok with the SPDX reference, but they want to keep an
> > explicit statement of the license that was intended.
> 
> The SPDX identifier is an explicit statement. Sigh...

Richard, could you please try to re-engage with your legal team and
explain that the SPDX identifier replaces the licence statement.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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